Source Design You Trust  Safa Sahin is a Turkish footwear designer, painter, and photographer who blends avant-garde aesthetics with functional innovation. Trained in shoe design and fine arts, he has shaped sneaker culture through bold, maximalist forms for brands like Nike and Balmain. His shoe designs fuse 3D printing, plexiglass, liquid nylon, and hand-painted elements…

Source Colossal   In Love Letters, Hilary Pecis captures the mundane moments and under-appreciated views of daily life. The Los Angeles-based artist presents a suite of new acrylic paintings in her signature saturated style, focusing on snippets of a backyard pool, the corner of a studio worktop, and a friendly picnic complete with a radiant strawberry…

Source Colossal   Despite its name, the Canadian Tuxedo is a distinctly American look. The denim-on-denim getup dates back to the 1950s, when Bing Crosby sported a full Levi’s ensemble while in Vancouver, setting a sartorial trend that continues today. The national mythology woven into this utilitarian material is also the focus of Brooklyn-based Nick Doyle,…

Source Colossal   Known for his stunning photos of wildlife and landscapes, as well as co-founding SeaLegacy alongside fellow conservationist and photographer Cristina Mittermeier, Paul Nicklen has traveled the globe to not only highlight our planet’s phenomenal biodiversity but also to shed light on its increasing vulnerabilities due to the ongoing climate crisis. Nicklen’s most ambitious…

Source Colossal   Organized by Capture the Atlas, the 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year saw a record number of submissions, with more than 6,500 entries representing a wide range of landscapes and perspectives around the world. Just 25 were selected as the top images, representing 12 different regions from the Canary Islands to New…

Source Design You Trust  Anna Poltorykhina is a Russian 2D artist and illustrator whose practice combines digital and traditional image-making, with a strong focus on landscape studies and painterly atmosphere. Her public portfolio materials describe her simply as an artist working across both media, and recent visible works point to plein-air-inspired scene building and compact…

Source Design You Trust  Jean-Jacques Balzac is the pseudonym of a Parisian architect known for “Wrong Architecture Illustrations”—AI-generated surreal structures that collapse infrastructure into organic forms. Balzac’s generative art features eroded walls, root-like cables, living buildings, and vacation homes (“Maison des vacances,” “Entrance”). His distorted modernism reimagines bridges, dams, and towers as symbiotic entities. More:…

Source Design You Trust  Think Very Little is a premier print and publication studio established in 2016. Curated by Valeria Teteriuk, it showcases poetic photography, moody visuals, and contemplative narratives from global artists (Kensaku Kakimoto, Kasia Traveltheworld). Themes explore self-reflection (“eyes on the horizon, back to the mirror”), presence (“guest who is already here”), and…